• Documentary: "Schinias Biotope" - Marathon - Aegean Coast Attica ("Βιότοπος Σχινιά")
• Creation: Matheos Maurogenis (Ματθαίος Μαυρογένης)
• Naration: Lila Pitta (Λίλα Πίττα)
• Music: George N. Lazaridis (Γιώργος Ν. Λαζαρίδης)
• Translation: Spyros Georgiadis (Σπύρος Γεωργιάδης)
• Υποτιτλισμένο Ντοκιμαντέρ: "Βιότοπος Σχινιά" - Μαραθώνας - Αττική" (2020)
Schinias wetland has been known since ancient times as “Marathon Marsh”, or simply the “Great Marsh”. On its beach the Persian forces landed in order to attack Athens, and on the adjacent plain the famous battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC.
Compared to Greece’s major wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention Sites) it is not an extensive marsh, but it is the largest in this part of the Attica Peninsula in SE Greece.
After decades of widespread anthropogenic wetland degradation this relic wetland is one of the most important remaining wetlands on the southern Aegean coast of Greece. The wetland now covers roughly seven square kilometers in area - including one of Attica’s most famous freshwater springs, reedbeds, rushbeds, saltmarshes and a freshwater lake. Since 2003 a National Park has been designated here comprising nearly the entire wetland, the famous coastal pine forest, the surrounding hills, and a part of the shallow bay.